Blenheim Visit

[Awatea Piripi Edwin]

On Thursday 20th August 09 I visited our Man Sau Gwoon Blenheim school with Ian Muir and Saam-Sihing Terry Rongo. The Blenheim group is headed up by Dave Oberdries and is based on his property just on the northern belt of the town. Terry is a student of mine from the original MSG school in Dunedin and now resides in Porirua (and about to move to Rotorua) and Ian of course is from our Kaiapoi and Bishopdale schools.
After settling in we began a session for a few of the members in which the focus was on structure and key principles of Wing Chun.
The three and a half hour workshop/seminar allowed the members to re-learn some aspects of the curriculum with a more in-depth view of their basic skills and introduced several new ideas and drills. They were all able to touch hands with all three visiting MSG members and Dave had time to train with Ian and Terry as well as myself.
We were also treated to testing out Daves new wooden dummies that he has created and we were all suitably impressed by his designs - especially the dummy with its arms set in reverse.
It was fantastic to spend time with Dave and the crew and we were humbled by the hospitality of Dave and his family.

This is just a quick catch up on the trip and I invite Dave, Ian, Terry, and the others involved to blog their own entries on here to share their experience and thoughts on the same.